Buying old domains

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chc89

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Jan 18, 2008

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• Oct 17, 2008

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i am planning to buy few old domains from a person. What do you think is it a good investment for future? Or should I buy new domains?

All domains are 8-10 characters in length.

Thanks in advance

 

yuppy

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• Oct 17, 2008

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you risk buying one that is banned from google, digg or other social networking sites, or banned as a spam site.

But its not always a bad idea, pending the name of the domains. I just stated the risks, benefits

-already listed in google
-aged
-could have backlinks already
-could have traffic already

theres more but those are the basic ones

 

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chc89

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• Oct 17, 2008

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Ok i will keep all these points in mind while buying old domains. But I want to know that how can I check how many backlinks a domain is having? Is there any special tool to check it?

 

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bizcredit

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• Oct 17, 2008

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Search google for backlink checker, or use google to find sites that link to that site.

Also, the value is in the name itself really. If you are paying for age might as well pay for a decent name with age.

 

seomanifest

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• Oct 17, 2008

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If you are buying them for their age be aware that as soon as a transfer takes place it loses its age and very possibly also PR

 

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chc89

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• Oct 20, 2008

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Oh I was not aware that while we transfer domain it loses its age. I will keep it in my mind while buying it.

 

Twins2222

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• Mar 13, 2009

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why do they lose age? how much age do they lose?

 

keinehabe

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• Mar 13, 2009

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transferring domains aren't losing their ages I just moved one .net domain couple of days ago from godaddy to directi and everything works super nicely

 

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dondeal

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• Mar 19, 2009

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Domains don't lose their age!

I bought an eight year old domain with PR4 in early Feb. I added thousands of pages and now my $80 investment is worth $9,000 in one month!

The domain will lose it's PR for a couple weeks and then Goog will give it back. Old domains with High PR is where the money is ....

 

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webhat

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• Mar 21, 2009

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How do you know your investment is worth $9000?
Did someone offer you that price?

 

chowyoungfat

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• Mar 21, 2009

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I think it is pretty important that the domain names are decent and relevant, age is a bonus.

 

predayshus

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• Apr 5, 2009

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The BEST place for buying domains.

Code:

http://www.freshdrop.net/

 

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celek

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• Apr 6, 2009

• #13

i have a 8 yrs old domain, PM me if you're interested

 

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berrycorp

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• Apr 6, 2009

• #14

umm have 2... 11-12 year old domains lying with me...

have brandable names... i liked them... so picked them up like 2-3 years ago.. have done nothing much... but they have some traffic...

will be willing to sell both for $100... bought them for the same money...! let me know if interested!

 

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buyaccount88

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• Apr 7, 2009

• #15

what is your budge?

 

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projext

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• Apr 7, 2009

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buyaccount88 said:

what is your budge?

Click to expand...

Its an exotic bird

I love these sites that say your domain is valued a $10,000...of course they would love to sell it or you for a listing fee

The expansion of differing tld's have diluted the market a lot